And this sports fans, is the signature sound of DragonForce… Third song, and the third six minute plus offering in a row, ‘The Last Dragonborn’ is a more epic and majestic march than the previous two, Cinematic and climactic in its delivery, ‘The Last Dragonborn’ is melodic power metal of the most infectious kind. The elegant and exotically titled ‘Cosmic Power Of The Infinite Shred Machine’ glides in and then rockets off at high velocity, much heavier than the opener, yet retaining a massive melodic edge. What an opening salvo, igniting the fire and flames fuse, exploding in an avalanche of fireworks.

‘Highway To Oblivion’ is the opener, building an atmospheric crescendo, easing you in to the scorching pace that soon takes over. With ten songs across fifty minutes, DragonForce bring the eighties/nineties power metal style to the modern day, launching ‘Extreme Power Metal’ with an incendiary triple salvo, each of the three opening songs running in excess of six minutes apiece. Yes, there is still blistering fast paced guitar riffs to set new land speed records, but the overall ambience of the new album is power metal rooted. With a shift from their customary speed metal style, DragonForce now position themselves in the power metal genre with their new album ‘Extreme Power Metal’. The bands seventh album ‘Reaching Into Infinity’ was released in 2017, with their eighth full length studio offering ‘Extreme Power Metal’, a 2019 release. Two more albums followed, ‘Inhuman Rampage’ (2006) and ‘Ultra Beatdown’ (2008), before the bands singer left in 2010, to be replaced by Marc Hudson in 2011, the band releasing ‘The Power Within’ in 2012 and ‘Maximum Overload’ in 2014. ‘Valley Of The Damned’ is their 2003 debut album, quickly followed by ‘Sonic Firestorm’ the following year. The band have made extreme speed metal their signature sound, with every album displaying super fast guitar work and galloping rhythms. DragonForce are a power metal band from the UK, forming in 1999.

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